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SUMMARY:DH1 - Beyond Braille – Modern Assistive Technology for the Visuall
 y Impaired in At-Home Healthcare Products
DESCRIPTION:Poster Presentation\n\nAmanda Ho, Tori Brown, Noah Jung, and N
 icole Lee (Veranex)\n\nThis poster will cover current accessibility techno
 logy that should be considered in the development of healthcare products t
 o ensure inclusivity of the visually impaired. This research is based off 
 a year long project with the NIH RADx group that had the initiative to mak
 e at-home Covid tests more accessible to low vision and blind populations.
  The findings for this poster come from three iterative formative studies 
 with blind and low vision users who had ranges of tech savviness and blind
  and low vision subject matter experts.\nCurrently many healthcare compani
 es jump to the solution that they can just add braille to product packagin
 g and accessibility has been addressed. However, a glaring misconception a
 bout braille is that all of the low vision and blind population can read b
 raille. Less than 10% of the blind population knows braille and fully flue
 nt braille readers are typically those who have been blind since birth. Th
 e assumption that braille makes a product accessible excludes the majority
  of the blind and low vision population - those who become blind later in 
 life.\nThere are a variety of modern accessibility tools that are more wid
 ely used than braille. These tools include screen readers that are availab
 le as part of the operating systems on smartphones, downloadable applicati
 ons such as Be My Eyes and Eyera that connect a user with a volunteer or a
  service worker who will view a product through the phone camera to assist
  the user, and physical digital accessibility tools such as the Reizen Tal
 king Label Wand that narrates items, and digital magnifiers.\nThis poster 
 will cover findings and pros / cons about these accessibility tools and ho
 w products should be developed to be compatible with these tools. The main
  takeaway from this research is that we as professionals in the field need
  a thorough understanding of assistive devices / technology and how the vi
 sually impaired population uses them so we can advocate for tangible ways 
 to make products more accessible.\n\nTrack: Digital Health, Simulation and
  Education, Hospital Environments, Medical and Drug Delivery Devices, Pati
 ent Safety Research and Initiatives
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